Peace Building Advisor at Trócaire

Location: Ireland, Ethiopia, Rwanda or Zimbabwe

Deadline: 10 Jul 2023

Job Description

Are you energised by the thought of working in an organisation that supports people and communities to tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice? Do you love the idea of working in a global organisation with an inclusive and collaborative culture? Then Trócaire wants to hear from you! Read on for more details about this exciting opportunity.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join Trócaire’s global programmes division where you will work as part of an innovative and collaborative team. You will focus on growing this relatively new area of work across Trócaires portfolios – particularly in Fragile and Conflict Affected States. You will work in a place where you will add value and help to change millions of lives around the world.

About Trócaire

Trócaire is an International NGO. We work with local partners in the world’s most at-risk communities and with people in Ireland to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and injustice and respond to the crises they create. Together we bring about positive and lasting change for a just world.

Trócaire works in up to 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. We work towards five goals:

• Defend Human Rights and Promote Access to Justice;

• Achieve Climate & Environmental Justice;

• Ensure Women & Girls’ Protection, Voice & Influence;

• Save Lives and Protect Human Dignity and

• Mobilise the Public on the island of Ireland to achieve Global Justice.

Do you want to know more about Trócaire, the organisation? Find out more at https://www.trocaire.org/

Requirements

We’d love if you have International experience of leading and managing peacebuilding programmes in different contexts so that you can provide strategic guidance and direction as Trócaire scales up our work on Peace Building. Being able to provide high-quality technical support and capacity strengthening for country programme planning and delivery on conflict sensitivity and peace building is an essential element of this role together with the facilitation of learning and sharing within and across country programmes and the strategic engagement in relevant internal and external fora for enabling collaboration and profiling of Trócaires Peacebuilding work.

Benefits

What we can offer you:

Trócaire offers a competitive package of salary and benefits including pension scheme and life assurance. We have an excellent range of work life balance friendly policies including Hybrid working.

You will report to Head of Humanitarian. The job opportunity will be offered on a this is a fixed term contract for 3 years and can be based in any Trócaire office in Ireland, Ethiopia, Rwanda or Zimbabwe.

Safeguarding Programme Participants-Children & Adults

Trócaire is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from exploitation and abuse, and has clear expectations of all staff. Please ensure to click here

for more information on Trócaire’s safeguarding policies.

We welcome diverse applicants to join our inclusive workforce.

Trócaire is an equal opportunities employer. We are an organisation that embraces diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to bring their experiences and perspectives to Trócaire.

Reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities can be provided to support participation in the recruitment process when requested and indicated in the application or by contacting hr@trocaire.org. See our Diversity and Inclusion statement here